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"The Future of the United
States"
Garry Wills
Thursday, September 2, 1999
Garry Wills
The Utne Reader calls Garry Wills "a renegade political and cultural theorist . . . known for his incisive political commentaries." Wills is the author of numerous books, including Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America, for which he won the Pulitzer Prize in Literature; A Necessary Evil: A History of American Distrust of Government; Nixon Agonistes: The Crisis of the Self-Made Man; Certain Trumpets: The Call of Leaders; and John Wayne's America: The Politics of Celebrity. He has received the Presidential Medal of the Endowment for the Humanities, the National Book Critics Circle Award (twice), the Organization of American Historians' Merle Curti Award, Yale Graduate School's Wilbur Cross Medal, and the Peabody Award for Excellence in Broadcasting for writing and narrating "The Choice" for Frontline. He is an adjunct professor of history at Northwestern University.
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